Zhao Douan drank in silence, listening intently: "And then?"
Sun Lianying babbled, "I don't quite remember, it's been too long. I only remember at first I was ambitious, thinking I could serve beside a certain concubine, or even the Emperor. It was the Chief Eunuch then. There was an eighteen-year-old who achieved the position of Chief, envied by others."
Zhao Douan responded, "You've told me about this before."
